It's a shame that he wants to start his own project instead of offering to help on ours though.

Oh well, best of luck to him still.

Edit: Upon further inspection of his site, it looks like he's been working on this project for awhile and it actually predates our project by quite a few years. But it still would have been nice of him to offer to help on our project though.

Part of my surprise was caused by the fact that this seems to be around for quite some time but I never saw it anywhere, I stumbled upon it very randomly.

I thought it was new project myself, until I starting looking into his site more and came across his history page - apparently he's been working on a basic idea for it since 1999 or so (!). Looks like he's put a lot of effort into it and I hope that he succeeds.

Kind of weird that we never heard about it before, how did you come across it? Google search?